Illness	Number of cases
Somatoform disorders - Pain disorder exclusively related to psychological factors (F45.41)	131
Other intervertebral disc disorders (M51.1)	15
Other spondylopathies (M48.06)	12
Spondylosis - Other spondylosis with radiculopathy lumbar region (M47.26)	9
Spondylosis (M47.86)	6
Dorsalgia - Radiculopathy lumbar region (M54.16)	6
Dorsalgia (M54.4)	6
Dorsalgia - Low back pain (M54.5)	4
Polyarthrosis - Other polyosteoarthritis (M15.8)	not specified
Coxarthrosis arthrosis of hip (M16.1)	not specified

Top 10 treatments

Treatment	Number
Pain control by injecting an anaesthetic around a nerve root or nerve close to the spine (8-914.12)	132
Interdisciplinary management of patients with chronic pain (8-918.10)	93
Treatment with electrical currents, usually directly through the skin (8-650)	46
Interdisciplinary management the musculoskeletal system without surgery (8-977)	40
(9-984.7)	26
(9-984.8)	23
Interdisciplinary management of patients with chronic pain (8-918.01)	19
Pain control by injecting an anaesthetic into a joint of the spine (8-917.13)	14
Computed tomography (CT) of the spine and the spinal cord without contrast medium (3-203)	11
Interdisciplinary management of patients with chronic pain (8-918.11)	8

Further information about the department

Out-patient accident insurance doctor approval

In-patient Employers’ Liability Insurance Association approval

Department key

Department key: 3700

Type of specialist department

Main Department

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Services

Quality

External comparative quality assurance

Further information

External quality assurance according to state law
No participation

Quality of participation in the Disease Management Programme (DMP)
No participation

Teilnahme an sonstigen Verfahren der externen vergleichenden Qualitätssicherung

Implementation of resolutions of the Federal Joint Committee on quality assurance (G-BA)

No.	Explanation
CQ31

Further training
pursuant to Article 136b, para. 1, sentence 1, no. 1 of the SGB

Number	Group
25	Medical specialists (m/f) , psychological psychotherapists (m/f) and child and adolescent psychotherapists (m/f) who are subject to the obligation to undergo further training*
22	Number of medical specialists (m/f) from no. 1 who have completed a five-year period of further training and are therefore subject to the obligation to provide evidence
20	Number of those persons from no. 2 who have provided proof of further training according to Article 3 of the G-BA regulations

* according to the “Provisions of the Joint Federal Committee for the Further Training of Medical Specialists (m/f), Psychological Psychotherapists (m/f) and Child and Adolescent Psychotherapists (m/f) in Hospitals”

Accessibility

Accessibility information

General information

Training

No.	Training in other healing professions	Comment
HB02	Health and paediatric nurse (m/f)	In Kooperation mit der AGP (Akademie für Gesundheits- und Pflegeberufe).
HB15	Anaesthesia technical assistant (m/f)	Anästhesietechnische Assistenten (ATA): Die Ausbildung wird in Kooperation mit der KBS Mönchengladbach (Akademie für Gesundheitsberufe) angeboten.
HB17	Auxiliary nurse (m/f)	In Kooperation mit der AGP (Akademie für Gesundheits- und Pflegeberufe).
HB07	Surgical technical assistant (m/f)	Operationstechnische Assistenten (OTA). Die Ausbildung wird in Kooperation mit der KBS Mönchengladbach (Akademie für Gesundheitsberufe) angeboten.
HB19	Nursing professionals	In Kooperation mit der AGP (Akademie für Gesundheits- und Pflegeberufe).
HB01	Nurse and health care worker (m/f)	In Kooperation mit der AGP (Akademie für Gesundheits- und Pflegeberufe).
HB21	Geriatric nurse (m/f)	In Kooperation mit der AGP (Akademie für Gesundheits- und Pflegeberufe).